How to Make Easy Cupcake Bouquets (in a box!)

Selling cupcakes is one of the easiest ways to add extra income to your cake business and when you pretty them up, you can sell even more! Today I’m sharing How to Make Easy Cupcake Bouquets (in a box!).

I sold 30+ boxes of these Cupcake Bouquets for Valentine’s Day and I’m already planning to offer them again for Mother’s Day sales.

how to make easy cupcake bouquets text on box of flower cupcakes for valentines

These boxes are so easy to put together and with just a few special touches, you can really step up your cupcake game! Here’s a video of me making a Cupcake Bouquet in a box…

Cupcake Bouquet Supplies:

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Sooo, here’s a quick rundown of how to put these together.

First – you’ll frost the cupcakes to look like flowers. For most of my boxes, I did all buttercream roses (as you see in the video above). I used an Ateco 825 piping tube for those and I love that tip!

buttercream rose cupcakes for cupcake bouquets made with ateco 825 piping tip

For the video, I didn’t add a lot of color but I do love to paint a stripe of color in my piping bag to give the flowers a punch of color… these are one of my favorite boxes:

buttercream rose cupcakes swirled white and pink for cupcake bouquet for valentine's day

Those were piped with a Wilton 1M tip and I painted a stripe of bright pink buttercream in the side of my piping bag to get the beautiful color!

I also made several boxes with mixes flowers:

mixed flower cupcakes for cupcake bouquet for mother's day

Truly, the possibiliites are endless and the boxes are so pretty!

Okay – so back to the tutorial. One thing that really makes these cupcake bouquets so pretty is the green wrapers. It looks like the leaves around the flowers, right?

After they’re frosted, you just drop the cupcakes into the green tulip liners.

buttercream rose cupcakes in green tulip liners for cupcake bouquets

You might be wondering why I didn’t just bake the cupcakes in the green tulip liners. Well, the truth is, I tried that. But the green liners are not grease-proof (like the brown glassine liners I bake in) so they were not pretty after baking.

Also, I found that the tulip liners didn’t hold their shape nearly as well as standard cupcake liners so they were just kind of wonky. But I encourage you to do what works for you.

buttercream roses cupcakes in box with green tulip liners and tissue paper for cupcake bouquets

The next step is to put a sheet of tissue paper in the bottom of your box. I don’t have a great picture of doing that – it’s just a matter of crinkling it up a bit and lining the box with it. Then put your cupcakes in and you’re done!

You Can Sell Cupcake Bouquets!

Now – for those of you who are cake business owners – I thought I’d also share a little about pricing these. I normally charge $21 for a dozen cupcakes. Those are simple buttercream rose cupcakes with no toppers or special requests.

Cupcake bouquet in pink box for how to make easy cupcake bouquets tutorial

For these Cupcake Bouquets in a box, I also charged $21. The box only has 9 cupcakes but with the extra liners and tissue paper and the special coloring in the buttercream, I was able to charge more money for fewer cupcakes. Depending on your market, you might even sell these for $25 or $30 per box.

Alrighty, I think that’s everything! Do you have any questions about these?

If you love the idea, go ahead and order supplies now, make up a couple of samples and photogragh them (photography tips here), and get a jump on pre-selling for the next holiday! Speaking of… you’ll find everything I’ve mentioned in this post in my Amazon Store here.

Go see –> https://www.amazon.com/shop/rosebakes?listId=3KV83ZA63P9EQ

Happy Caking!

Rose

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32 Comments

  1. Rose, thank you so much for sharing this wonderful idea/tutorial! You are the best!
    I will have to do it for Morhers Day, already shopping the supplies!!

  2. I started making bouquets last year for VALENTINES Day. I boxed them with satin ribbon and a bow to look likea box a fancy flowers. They were a hit.

      1. I have 8+ pics in this post – what are you wanting to see? If you can’t see them, it may be because you’re using an ad blocker. I get my boxes from BRPBoxShop.

  3. I can’t quite tell in the photo-what tips did you use for the other flowers? One looks like maybe a star tip? They are so pretty!! Thanks!

  4. Love this! So adorable!
    Did you offer different flavors, and allow people to choose, or did you put a box together and say this is it?
    Also, do you bake vanilla cupcakes in the brown liners as well?
    Thanks!

    1. I offered chocolate, vanilla, red velvet mixed (3 of each). I bake ALL of my cupcakes in the dark brown glassine liners unless I’m working on a special request that requires a different color.

  5. Hi Rose, thanks so much for the great idea (I usually do my bouquets in a basket, but this is SO much easier!). You mentioned that you posted a video tutorial, but there is no link to it that I can find….am I missing something? Thanks so much for all of your sharing!!

      1. Thanks, Rose!! As it turned out, the video wasn’t loading due to the weak internet connection (I wasn’t at home). Now I see it, thanks!!!

    1. Thanks Laurie! I love the look of the baskets – I just haven’t figured out how to do them yet and didn’t have time for Valentine’s Day (when I decided to do them on a whim)!

  6. Beautiful ! Thanks for a really informative blog post, just a question if you may, the line of color would be just color or a line of buttercream colored and just a really thin one? Would love to try it. Thanks again

    1. I’ve done the lines with color alone and colored frosting and both work well. The line of color is just more intense usually.

  7. This what I am searching for rose, you have explained so perfectly, thanks for sharing. I am sure cupcakes are very delicious as they look beautiful in the pictures.. mouth watering:)

  8. Hi Rose. I want to get a head start for Valentine’s Day. I plan on making a dozen red rose cupcakes. What color cupcake liners should I use? Is it k to use the brown ones and place them in the green tulip liners. All of your suggestions would be greatly appreciated

  9. Thank you Rose for a great frosting recipe and a beautiful presentation idea!! I made the hydrangea and rosette cupcakes (minus the stems) for a garden party and they were a hit. I added some gold dust for extra sparkle because I am also a sprinkle-lover. The frosting was just the right amount of sweet and piped beautifully. Thanks for making cupcake decorating a lot less intimidating!

  10. These bouquet boxes are brilliant and beautiful. Thank you for sharing your ideas with the baking community. Looking forward to trying this idea for the holidays.

  11. What a wonderful idea! A nice gift for a birthday, Mother’s Day, or any special occasion! I do have a question: You mentioned a video showing the process of making your bouquet, ….where can I find it?

    1. There’s a video player that pops up on the bottom right if you’re on desktop and after the first picture on mobile.

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